What's behind the saying, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Well, that free horse might be older than it looks and not much of a gift after all. The teeth can reveal a horse's old age. Wisconsin ...

As a young wildlife biologist, one of the most “sciencey” feeling things I did was age jawbones from harvested white-tailed deer. To this day, I still enjoy it as both a hunter and a biologist, and ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. RUTLAND — Hunters who provided the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department with a tooth from their deer can now find out how old their deer was by ...

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Male deer grow new antlers every year. Telling the age of a deer by its antlers, however, isn’t easy. A 1-year-old buck will be the easiest to identify because it may have straight, small antlers ...